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A SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD. TITLE
Full-Length Play, Drama / 6w, 19m
Bertolt Brecht, Robert David MacDonald
A lone woman, Anna Fierling, tries to achieve the irreconcilable aims of making money and keeping her family alive during the nightmare of the Thirty Years War.
For years through the terrible Thirty Years War, Mother Courage has followed the Swedish armies with her mobile canteen, and her three children. Life during war is reduced simply to a series of business transactions: soldiers rob peasants and steal from their own stores, peasants sell their last treasured possessions. Mothe Courage's business and motherly instincts constantly betray her. Finally, alone, she hitches herself to her wagon and continues to follow the army.
Anna Fierling, Mother Courage Kattrin, her daughter Eilif, her elder son Swiss Cheese, her younger son The Cook The Chaplain Yvette Pottier The Recruiting Officer The Sergeant The Commander-in-Chief The Armourer A Soldier The Second Sergeant The Man with a Patch A Very Old Colonel Two Mercenaries The Regimental Clerk Young Soldier Older Soldier Soldier in Fur Coat Second Soldier Farmer's Wife A Peasant The Soldier in the Bar Young Man Old Woman Eilif's Guards The Singer
Period 1624-1636